“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”— Laura Pritchett, amazon.com
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”— Michael Bassey Johnson, amazon.com
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are…”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.com
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”— Mario Puzo, amazon.com
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Friendship - my definition - is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”— Charles Lamb, amazon.com
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com